Posted on 10/04/2011 4:53:23 AM PDT by IbJensen
News documents indicate that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder more than likely perjured himself in congressional testimony about Operation Fast and Furious earlier this year.
Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News and William LaJeunesse of Fox News have been the only mainstream media reporters diligently working on the most important scandal in White House history, and it is no surprise that they concurrently released information indicating that the attorney general, who claimed in direct testimony on May 3 of this year in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he first heard about Operation Fast and Furious “over the last few weeks,” had actually been briefed on the program in a memo by the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center almost a year earlier on July 5, 2010.
A copy of the heavily redacted weekly report posted by CBS News offers direct evidence that not only was the attorney general briefed on Operation Fast and Furious, but that he was briefed on it regularly and was well aware that the program was sending thousands of weapons into the hands of the Sinaloa cartel:
From July 12 through July 16, the National Drug Intelligence Center Document and Media Exploitation Team at the Phoenix Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCTDETF) Strike Force will support the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ Phoenix Field Division with its investigation of Manuel Celis-Acosta as part of OCDETF Operation Fast and Furious. This investigation, initiated in September 2009 in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Phoenix Police Department, involves a Phoenix-based firearms trafficking ring headed by Manual Celis-Acosta. Celis-Acosta and [redacted] straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels. They also have direct ties to the Sinaloa Cartel which is suspected of providing $1 million for the purchase of firearms in the greater Phoenix area.
That excerpt stated what the task force would do in the near future, while the same language was used later in the report to show what the task force had done that week:
From July 6 through July 9, the National Drug Intelligence Center Document and Media Exploitation Team at the Phoenix Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCTDETF) Strike Force will support the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ Phoenix Field Division with its investigation of Manuel Celis-Acosta as part of OCDETF Operation Fast and Furious. This investigation, initiated in September 2009 in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Phoenix Police Department, involves a Phoenix-based firearms trafficking ring headed by Manual Celis-Acosta. Celis-Acosta and [redacted] straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels. They also have direct ties to the Sinaloa Cartel which is suspected of providing $1 million for the purchase of firearms in the greater Phoenix area.
Attorney General Holder’s eventual criminal defense attorney is certain to state that the attorney general is provided with dozens of reports each week, and that is within the realm of reasonable doubt that he simply overlooked or did not remember the specifics of this memo.
Prosecutors would likely cast doubt on such a claim, citing the fact that the report was named Operation Fast and Furious, that it referred to the number of guns walked by the program at that time (1,500), and that it even noted how much they thought the Sinaloa cartel had budgeted for weapons ($1 million). They will then note that this information was cited twice in each weekly report for both current and future operations.
The prosecutors will more than likely be able to state with a great degree of certainly that Holder was provided this information in x number of weekly reports spanning y number of months in a report that only cites the most important National Drug Intelligence Center cases.
Thanks!
Now that Drudge has put it up maybe it will get more traction. I’ve noticed Rush lately seems to be formatting his show by reading us the Drudge Report...
Okay, who is going to indict Holder and his underlings for murder?
I suspect that Obama’s reaction will be to double-down and try to defend Holder. This will only suck him further down the whirlpool.
Honduras out of Florida?
“Scooter Liby went to Prison for less than this.”
MMMM And was Scooter Libby a racist democrat? LOL Holder will NEVER face any charges for perjury or any other crimes committed against the State.
Now that Holder and Obama are both being found out, they become very, very dangerous because they have nothing left to lose. The only thing that will keep their hind ends out of jail for life at this point is for the entire system of laws to be done away with before anybody honest can get in and enforce the laws these jerks have been breaking all along.
I don’t think it’s an accident that we’ve got what the participants claim is the beginnings of a communist revolution being started in big cities across the country right now, and that the media is billing it as a grassroots fire - like “Prairie Fire”, eh? Recently when Hoffa and Biden both used violent rhetoric within a couple days of each other - and when directly asked about it every democrat refused to condemn the rhetoric - I wondered whether that was a signal from the Soros mafia that Obama had run out of time with the covert takeover of law enforcement and it was time to begin the communist revolution in earnest.
This also confirms that the main goal of Fast and Furious was to score political points, not to engage in actual law enforcement activity.
Needs to be convicted.
The DOJ will do nothing about perjury. Back during the Clinton administration, several officials connected to the Hillarycare project were found to have committed perjury by the trial judge who was hearing a case involving the public’s right to open hearings.
The judge forwarded an order to the DOJ recommending a crimianl perjury case be opened and it was ignored by the DOJ, led by the Deputy AG at the time. Guess who?
TAA...DA! Eric Holder. The frustrated judge then took the only action he could. He fined the United States of America $250,000 and the DOJ did nothng to dispute it.
Google “Ira Magaziner” and you’ll get some idea of the case although the MSM didn’t give it much play at the time. No surprise there.
These leftist-loonies who have destroyed our economy and our lives had best watch their step.
The ‘acting-up’ by easily influenced loafers is one thing, but an escalation will result in a backlash that will bowl this evil regime over!
Many of us on the right belong to the NRA or at least have the ability at hand to defend ourselves and what freedoms we have left.
New Mexico ATF orifice is next to be discovered doing same thang.....
Doom on em all for they’re criminal crap ....
Stay safe.....
Thanks for the ping.
According to CBS, Holder is now saying he misunderstood the question!!!!!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20115038-10391695.html
Actually, it's the Independent Prosecutor law that expired. They were appointed by Congress/House Judiciary Committee if I remember correctly. Special prosecutors are designated by the Attorney General, I think. The fact that one has not been appointed by Holder is glaringly telling.
They will try everything to prevent Holder from having to resign. Much less ever see the inside of a prison cell.
They jailed him for lying in an investigation. I don’t blame him because after all the grilling and testimony these people were out to find anything to hang him on, because there wasn’t anything REAL to hang him on. So they got him on a technicality from hours and hours of testimony spread over a long period of time.
This is something that is not an uncommon tactic. Essentially this is how they jailed Martha Stewart as well.
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What if we've all over-thought this mess?
What if it's a twofer?
One 'goal' of Fast and Furious was to put high quality guns in the hands of criminals in exchange for kick-backs - and the other goal was to discredit the right.... the Chicago Way...
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